What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 28, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. - “We can frame this the opposite way, too: Filters designed to target ISIS overban, but mostly affect people without the political leverage to make this awkward for the company.” - https://twitter.com/normative/status/1121459735444762625 When it comes to Nikola Jokic, we’re all biased - I’m breaking my rule of not listing basketball content because the ideas in this article can be applied to pretty much anything. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 21, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: YouTube Flagged The Notre Dame Fire As Misinformation And Then Started Showing People An Article About 9/11 - Maybe the algorithms are the problem not the solution 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook - “The message also highlighted another of the company’s original sins: its assertion that if you just give people better tools for sharing, the world will be a better place. [Read More]
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Why Possession Counts Are Lower on PBPStats Than NBA Stats

 Posted on April 15, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

This season the NBA stats website started using exact possession counts instead of the estimate they had previously used. While exact counts had previously been available on some smaller sites, including my site, PBPStats , it was good to see what I would assume is the most visited site for NBA stats finally use exact counts. If you have compared numbers on the NBA site and on PBPStats you have probably noticed that the possession counts are different. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 14, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: A.I. Is Changing Insurance - Before giving away personal data you should ask yourself how it could be used against you. Lots of data you can’t control is already being used against you. Health The Passion Paradox: A Conversation with Brad Stulberg Why Do Smart People Believe Dumb Things? A trek into Bro Science, diets, vitamin cocktails, and other fads - The Dunning Kruger Effect. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 7, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Rise in cashless payments stokes concerns over data security Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet - “Four recent studies found that older Americans are more likely to consume and share false online news than those in other age groups, even when controlling for factors such as partisanship. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 31, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: How malevolent machine learning could derail AI - “Another project involved modifying road signs with a few innocuous-looking stickers to fool the computer vision systems used in many vehicles. In a video demo, Song showed how the car could be tricked into thinking that a stop sign actually says the speed limit is 45 miles per hour. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 24, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here’s How. How the Rich Really Play, “Who Wants To Be An Ivy Leaguer?” YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Has a Dark Side - “YouTube’s algorithms will push whatever they deem engaging, and it appears they have figured out that wild claims, as well as hate speech and outrage peddling, can be particularly so. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 17, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Amy Webb on Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, and the Big Nine The Modern Trap of Turning Hobbies Into Hustles - “We don’t have to monetize or optimize or organize our joy. Hobbies don’t have to be imbued with a purpose beyond our own enjoyment of them. They, alone, can be enough.” YANSS 149 – Expert advice on how health experts can better provide good health advice to combat bad health advice from non-experts True crime is popular. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 10, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: E908: Roger McNamee, early Facebook investor & author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” shares early days mentoring Zuck, the destructive power of persuasive tech, the Russian plan to subvert American democracy, & Beyond Facebook: Big Tech’s dystopian surveillance, data collection & what we can do about it – PART 1 E909: Part 2! [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 3, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The Trauma Floor The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - “The moderators told me it’s a place where the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views. One auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the Earth is flat. A former employee told me he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 24, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: YouTube Continues To Promote Anti-Vax Videos As Facebook Prepares To Fight Medical Misinformation - “There’s always been asymmetry of passion on social platforms: The most compelling content is the most sensational” How Big a Problem Is It That a Few Shareholders Own Stock in So Many Competing Companies? Ad code ‘slows down’ browsing speeds - “About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do” [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 10, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The best defense against deepfake AI might be . . . blinking - “Healthy adult humans blink somewhere between every 2 and 10 seconds, and a single blink takes between one-tenth and four-tenths of a second. That’s what would be normal to see in a video of a person talking. But it’s not what happens in many deepfake videos. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 3, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them - “If Facebook makes full use of the level of access they are given by asking users to install the Certificate, they will have the ability to continuously collect the following types of data: private messages in social media apps, chats from in instant messaging apps – including photos/videos sent to others, emails, web searches, web browsing activity, and even ongoing location information by tapping into the feeds of any location tracking apps you may have installed. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on January 20, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Facebook’s ‘10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right? - While I’m not sure the data would actually be used, due to the reasons mentioned in the article, it is a good thing that these questions are being asked. The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. - I wonder how many people are in prison based on unreliable forensic methods. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on January 6, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The 30-Year Mortgage is an Intrinsically Toxic Product - “A realistic summary of the American housing finance ecosystem is that most of it has been socialized: while we spend some money on public housing for the poor, we invest vastly more in hybrid public-private housing for the middle class; the capitalist part is what happens if your house goes up in price, and the socialist part is what happens if it doesn’t. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on December 30, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: What We Can Learn About Online Privacy From Climate Change How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus - Crazy how something with so little scientific backing became commonplace in courts. “The paper showed that the hypotheses that underpin bloodstain-pattern analysis remained largely untested. [Read More]
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